A Move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in Ads

Concerned that girls and women feel excessive pressure to live up to the digitally Botoxed and liposuctioned images of human perfection they see in glossy magazines, lawmakers in Britain and France are trying to push advertisers to get real.

Under their proposals, ads containing altered photos of models would be required to carry disclaimers.

Not sure how I feel about this. No doubt advertising drives people (not just young girls) to do things, buy things, think things, but how far do we go protecting people from themselves? A piece of me feels very libertarian about these things: as long as people take full responsibility for the consequences of their actions, let them do as they please.

Are we next going to protect people from excessive body piercing or tattooing by putting disclaimers on all ads showing people with x number of tattoos or pierces?